It’s Fitness Month! With summer fast approaching, there’s no better time to take a closer look at the topics featured in our Spotlight: Sports & Fitness. You’ll find movies on subjects from body weight, CPR, and First Aid to the Olympics, baseball, and football. BrainPOP Jr. movies include those on exercise and bones. Check out the Spotlight’s featured quiz and free topic - Fitness - and be sure to download a free Moby iron-on for your workout t-shirts!

Looking for a great way to participate in Earth Day with your students? Everything you need is here, in our Earth Awareness Spotlight. Whether you teach science or P.E., Math or Spanish, and have five minutes for a quick interactive quiz or all day for a film festival, take some time to celebrate with your students! Browse our lesson plans, complete a typeable Activity as a class, or simply watch and discuss a movie, just for fun and to raise awareness.

How did you incorporate BrainPOP into your Earth Day celebration? Please post below!

Count on Tim & Moby to help students understand the basics of personal checks and banking. Use BrainPOP’s FYI to breakdown the components of a personal check, and explore our additional tidbits of information to expand on the topic of Banking.

Celebrate Earth Awareness Month with a BrainPOP Film Festival at your school! Kids of all ages can enjoy our Earth Awareness Spotlight by featuring each of the movies in a film festival, with fun, interactive features before and after each movie! This would make a great kick off activity or a fun-filled culminating event. You can use our Moby Film Festival Tickets to make it a formal affair!

Let us know how your film festival goes!

Help students build financial literacy skills and come to a better understanding of what they’re hearing about in the news with our Spotlight: Financial Literacy — it’s free throughout April, which happens to be Financial Literacy Month. The Spotlight includes three new movies on banking, budgets, and mortgages. Additional topics include everything from the stock market and taxes to comparing prices and credit cards. BrainPOP Jr. covers dollars and cents, needs and wants, counting coins, and goods and services. The featured quiz, “Mortgages,” and all related Activity Pages are free as well.

BrainPOP Educators is running a poll this month! Vote now on which notable woman BrainPOP should make a movie on next! It’s fun checking on the results and reading comments! Keep ‘em coming! We will announce the results at the end of the month.

How are you using BrainPOP’s Spotlight on Women’s History? Please post comments below!

Spotlight: Famous Scientists
Introduce Some of the Greatest Minds

In February, BrainPOP casts the “Spotlight”  on Famous Scientists. Explore our new movie and quiz on Thomas Edison and feature such topics as Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Darwin, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Jane Goodall, Marie Curie, and the Nobel Prize.

Also in February, in honor of Black History Month, BrainPOP’s Spotlight: Black History explores topics from the Underground Railroad, Brown v. Board of Education, and Harlem Renaissance to Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Maya Angelou, and more. A Civil Rights quiz plus a Harlem Renaissance lesson plan on BrainPOP Educators make us your go-to resource for Black History content.

Start planning now! We’re featuring a brand new Spotlight on Book Month for January, including famous authors, great interactive activities, and more! Be sure your students know the basics of writing a Book Report. Learn more about the classic, Frankenstein, our featured free movie, or the more modern adventures of Harry Potter.   You can explore famous authors from Homer to Kurt Vonnegut, and in BrainPOP Jr., Ezra Jack Keats and Cynthia Rylant. Our Winter & Snow Spotlight will stay available through the end of January as well.

Happy New Year!

This is so much fun! I just sent a Moby e-card to my best friend in China! The idea of doing BrainPOP e-cards has been in the works for a long time, so it’s exciting to see it up and running! Hope you have fun with it!

Consider BrainPOP’s Spotlight: Winter & Snow your seasonal headquarters. You’ll find great content on all-things winter, from movies about Winter Holidays and Mount Everest, to those on Snowflakes and Hibernation. You can also send personalized, free e-cards to your favorite Moby loving friends and family!

Now through January 10th, save 25 percent when you purchase Family or Classroom subscriptions to BrainPOP (grades 3 and up) or BrainPOP Jr. (grades K-3), or Combo subscriptions for your family or classroom (Combo subscriptions include access to both BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr.). Homeschoolers, you’re also eligible for this discount. Be sure to enter holiday08 as the coupon code.

Finally, check out our easily adaptable lesson plan on Hibernation to kick off your winter studies! Happy December!